Problem: some applications crash while trying to read an audio cd; others don’t. This is under WinNT 4.0; the cd player seems to be a Goldstar crd-8428B,

I can listen to audio cds using the QCD player but attempting to use the latest (and older) versions of Real player or Winamp gives me a Blue Screen of Death. This would not be an issue but the QCD player doesn’t seem to want to read mp3s (which the other 2 do fine). Ideally, I’d like to be able to bring in some of my cds and rip them to mp3 on this computer at work. I used to be able to rip on this computer but can no longer do so – I must’ve added something strange at some point.

Could this be a driver or dll conflict? Is there a way to find or remove the offending software/code/driver?